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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Mellow Dream
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The dream that isn't urgent — atmospheric softness that asks only for you to slow down, stay inside it for a moment.
Mellow Dream (2023) is a painting adrift — a soft descent into a state where clarity loosens and presence thickens. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic work invites the viewer into a color field of calm, where thought dissolves into hue and sensation.
The canvas is a haze of buttery yellows, muted apricots, and warm ivory, brushed with a hand that slows time. There’s no hard edge, no direction. The composition floats like breath — diffuse, continuous, just beyond definition. This is not a dream to be interpreted. It’s one to be experienced.
I painted Mellow Dream during a period of mental pause, when I longed for gentleness — not as escape, but as nourishment. The work became a space of restoration. A kind of visual lullaby.
In sensibility, this painting shares lineage with Etel Adnan, whose abstract landscapes evoke emotion through color more than form. Like Adnan, I’m drawn to the emotional frequency of yellow — not bright, but golden, introspective.
Mellow Dream does not ask for meaning. It asks for feeling. It offers quiet, not emptiness. It exists like a memory of warmth — just distinct enough to believe in, just soft enough to never hold.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece exists in suspension — between waking and sleep, thought and breath. A field where stillness glows.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 8 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Dusky rose and dusty pink warm and soften further in afternoon sun, and the gentle contrast can wash in direct light. A north wall or filtered daylight keeps the dream from dissolving.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Mellow Dream earns this room fully: its six-foot field of dusky rose and skin tone holds the wall without crowding conversation, and the crimson that surfaces slowly at the edges gives a living room the warmth that makes people stay.
Bedroom 4/5
At six feet the canvas is generous for a bedroom, but the low-contrast drift between dusty pink and skin tone, and a mood score that barely lifts off the floor, make this one of the few works at this scale that does not impose on sleep.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Finish
- Epoxy over acrylic. The resin lifts the color off the canvas and holds it forward, so the surface deepens as the light moves across the room.
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Dusky Rose · Dusty Pink · Skin Tone · Crimson
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette4.3
- Contrast2.3
- Abstraction Quotient4
